HTML Entity Decode [duplicate]

Answer 1

A more functional approach to @William Lahti's answer:

var entities = {
  'amp': '&',
  'apos': '\'',
  '#x27': '\'',
  '#x2F': '/',
  '#39': '\'',
  '#47': '/',
  'lt': '<',
  'gt': '>',
  'nbsp': ' ',
  'quot': '"'
}

function decodeHTMLEntities (text) {
  return text.replace(/&([^;]+);/gm, function (match, entity) {
    return entities[entity] || match
  })
}